Bettina Rheims: Can You Find Happiness (CINEMA - MUSIQU)

Schirmer Mosel, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. Color Photos. A couple of pages have slightly bent corners, otherwise in very nice condition. Since the early 1980s, Bettina Rheims has been the most sought-after French photographer. From her very beginnings, the female body has been the central focus of her work. Her unusual and provocatvie portrais and nude images each reveal a hidden part of the subject. She regularly caused stirs with projects such as Chambre close (1992), the story of a Paris voyeur watching women in hotels; KIM, a documentary on a transsexual; I.N. R. I. (1999), a sequence on the life of Christ, Shanghai (2004), featuring women in the midst of a powerful cultural, economic and spiritual evolution, and, most recently, Heroines (2006). This volume is a Best of survey of Bettina Rheims' photographic oeuvre of 30 years